A study on self-determination and assistive technology for the multiple disabled children with sensory impairments.

本研究关注的是有感觉障碍的多重残疾儿童的辅助交流技术和/或辅助技术。我们有以下三个目的进行调查。1)为多重残疾儿童开发新的视觉和/或听觉能力评估方法。2)为多重残疾感觉障碍儿童策划有吸引力的理解环境支持的教学方法。3)制定有效的环境支持策略。收集和统计多重感觉障碍儿童的病例，消化残疾儿童自我决定的理论和技术，收集辅助技术辅助工具，开发新的感觉评估方法，并对这些方法进行实验检验。从统计数据和案例分析中，我们发现了以下几点。a)视力障碍学校多重残疾儿童比例为19.9%。感觉障碍患儿中以智力障碍患儿居多（70.5%）。特殊学校（视力残疾学校、听力残疾学校、智力残疾学校、身体残疾学校和健康障碍学校）的多重残疾儿童占33.3%。b)许多教师认为普通的AAC技术无法适用于这些多重残疾的感觉障碍儿童。通过实验，我们开发了以下评估系统：c)利用眼动法对多重残疾低视力儿童进行评估。d)作为通用设计工具的易读性评价体系。

This research concerned about the AAC(Augmentative and Alternative Communication) technology and/or AT(Assistive Technology) for the multiple disabled children with sensory impairments. We had following 3 aims to investigate.1)To develop new assessment methods of visual and/or auditory abilities for the multiple disabled children.2)To plan attractive teaching methods of understanding environmental supports for the multiple disabled children with sensory impairments.3)To specify strategies of effective environmental supports.We gathered cases and statistics of the multiple disabled children with sensory impairments, digested theories and techniques of self-determination for disabled children, collected assistive technology aids, developed new sensory assessment methods, and experimentally tested these methods.From the analysis of the statistics and the case works, we found followings.a)There were 19.9% multiple disabled children in the schools for the visual disabilities. Most of the multiple disabled children with sensory impairments were with intellectual disabilities(70.5%). There were 33.3% multiple disabled children in the special schools(schools for the visual disabilities, hearing disabilities, intellectual disabilities, physical disabilities, and health impairments).b)Many teachers thought that ordinary AAC techniques could not adopt for these multiple disabled children with sensory impairments.From the experiments, we developed below.c)Assessment system for the multiple disabled children with low vision using eye movement.d)Evaluation system for legibility as a universal design tool.